Favorite films

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  M 1931

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 Mar 2024

  Wow, just wow. This is everything I had hoped Citizen Kane would be. The first great film. I'm incredulous as to how this was released in the first years of sound in pictures. The dialogue is superb. It starts off with ceaselessly engaging plotting, the complexity of which is astounding for the time. It marches on with spellbinding thrills as we close in on the subject. And the conclusion is simply beautiful. One of the best speeches by a vilain…

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  Puella Magi Madoka Magica 2011

  ★★★★★ Watched 26 Aug 2024 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Recent reviews

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  Anora 2024

  ★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  I went into this with low expectations, given that it’s made by Sean Baker—a Zionist—and won Best Picture. I, at the very least, was looking forward to seeing the humanization of a prostitute; her struggles, her emotions, her free will, her ethos. Yet, I saw the exact opposite—negative stereotypes reaffirmed. In point of fact, I felt that Igor was more so humanized than Anora. We decidedly witness her emotions and struggles here. However, she firmly and obstinately retains her conniving…

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  Larry and Steve 1997

  Watched 07 Mar 2025

  Humble origins. It wasn’t quite there yet.

Popular reviews

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  The Future Diary: Redial 2013

  ★½ Watched 31 Jul 2018

  I'd forgotten just how abysmal Mirai Nikki was. This doesn't even deserve an analysis.

  If you're considering watching this series, do it for the cringe.

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  Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion 1997

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 07 Jul 2019 13

  Incredible pulchritude. Felt illimitable weight borne by every scene. An existential journey. The need to accept a repugnant subsistence you groped for and cannot elude. The pain of the irrevocable. The beauty of grandiosity. A magnum opus.